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Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Good idea trying that Kathryn. I'm not sure it made an improvement or not; but worth remembering to try it. |
Feb 16th |
| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Talk about catching the light! Very nice.
Love the high vantage point; what did you climb up on? I like Lamar’s edits so I tried adding the graduated filter on just the left lower corner black sand to get some detail but it only shows a little on the wave wash on the beach.
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Feb 15th |
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| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Lovely golden lit scene at end of day. Lovely. The pier pilings and water reflection has a geometric graphic feel happening that I like.
I tried to simplify the scene and focus on that with cropping. Perhaps a return visit is possible with the Sony and focus composition on the pilings/water reflections?
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Feb 15th |
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| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Love this time of day with the lights twinkling on – perfect. To me the story is what appears to be the entire fishing fleet tied to the dock with the lone first boat departing for sea. The 100 mm lens compresses the scene enough to leave a pleasing jumble of chaotic masts and net trawling booms.
My eye is distracted by a pile driving boom and crane in the mix so I removed them with the spot healing brush. Then taking the adjustment brush I painted negative exposure onto some of the very bright mast hightlights.
I don’t find the sky or trees add anything to the story so trying to simplify the scene and emphasize how that one vessel is separate and departing the remaining fleet I cropped them out. Also I re-leveled the waterline.
Added a Radial filter with increased exposure over that departing boat and the one behind it to separate it more and lead your eye back into the scene.
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Feb 15th |
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| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Thanks Lamar for sharing an image using the Gold-N-Blue Polarizer; a fitting follow-up to last month comment. Enjoyed another round of goggling it’s reviews and effects. Thanks for turning me on to this worthy tool.
I find I’m too often forgetful in the field remembering to use my gray card/passport. Love this peaceful scene with soft water and magenta glow.
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Feb 15th |
| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Yes a very attainable goal is to get some awesome spontaneous "grab shots" but remember the first part of your workflow at home is to delete all where the subject is out of focus (OOF's). |
Feb 12th |
| 70 |
Feb 17 |
Comment |
Composition: Single tree perfectly centered in frame. Curved road creates a nice leading line taking you back into the scene. You successfully caught some pleasing light on two clouds flanking the dark ordinary tree. However the wires, post, telephone pole and ground branch distract me.
Upon zooming in I have a question: Did you shoot hand held? The tree leaves are out of focus from either the motion of the wind or hand held camera motion at slow (1/20 sec) shutter speed; even the trunk is not sharp. It’s very difficult to get hand held sharp focus when shooting below 1/60 second or below 1/focal length of lens.
Using your tripod provides more than stability; it’s an opportunity to take your time, consider what the basic elements are that you’re trying to share by capturing the image, obtain sharp focus, study your composition, tweek things as well as review all your settings one final time. Use remote shutter or 2 second delay so you don’t introduce shake upon shooting. Experiment. Shoot high, low, vertical and horizontal.
Keep your subject (tree) separate from the background. In this case, shooting from a slightly lower angle to show some sky below the tree branches and your tree would be separated from the forest. Walk around the scene and plan how to show your story before even setting up the tripod. Find your foreground interest. Don’t let the tripod ground you.
The Tree positioned dead center is not pleasing to me; I prefer the rule of thirds or golden spiral so I cropped with the grid overlay to improve composition and get the main subject out of dead center. I cropped where the left line of the grid showing the tic tac toe pattern lines right up over the tree trunk and the other upper right point is on the right cloud “ray” that’s part of your story.
Your eye will always be drawn to the lighter areas of an image, so to draw your eye from the road into the tree and on to the 2 clouds I lightened them all to lead the viewers eye where you want them to go.
Trying to enhance your idea of “going somewhere because of the cloud shapes” I put a Radial Filter on the tree and another on each cloud flanking the tree and boosted the exposure as your eye seeks lighter areas.
I used the spot healing brush (rather quickly and crudely I’m afraid) to remove all the distractions. All edits done in Lightroom.
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Feb 11th |
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